BritManToo

12 minutes ago, BigT73 said:

Max you should have quizzed him told him no to the gifts as you want to teach the boy not to accept gifts from strangers and made him delete the photos or you would call the police. 

As far as I know there are no laws in any country to prevent a person taking photos in a public place (excluding Korea).

But refusing the gifts might have been a good idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law

Just now, samsensam said:

but if you honestly believe that you need to look at yourself and the thais you are hanging out with. i have a great many thai friends; well educated - many educated abroad, professional, and extremely friendly and generous people.

But I agree with the lawless bit.

None of your posh mates would think twice bribing a policeman or government official to get something they wanted.

On 6/7/2010 at 9:22 PM, LazyYogi said:

who revived a thread 8 years old?

4 minutes ago, happy chappie said:

'Nearly all cops are bad cops' most criminals would agree with you on that one.

Most Thais, French, Spanish and Americans would also agree with me.

Looked like she whacked at least one other guy with her big stick for no reason at all.

6 minutes ago, bbi1 said:

Does anyone else know why the hell the Maccas at Pattaya Avenue doesn't follow this promo

Just eat at another McD.

10 minutes ago, xylophone said:

The problem here is that the Police are involved in corruption, extortion, drugs and other criminal activities, so to expect them to be responsible for ones safety or to uphold the law is a nonsense, whereas in other countries there is the rare "bad cop".............that's the difference.

I beg to differ, nearly all cops are 'bad cops' given the chance.

Their only check, is fear of losing their job.

5 minutes ago, happy chappie said:

Oh and I forgot.any farang  that calls someone a 'DUDE'

I'm OK with 'Dude', but I'm not OK with 'farang'.

14 minutes ago, madmen said:

I repeat there is NO safe anywhere. Please humor us and tell us the murder free countries?
Take your time now it's not a trick question

There may be no danger free countries, but there was little chance of being shot (by anyone) in my small hometown in Cornwall. London was more fun, but also more risk.

You just need to compare the 'fun Vs risk' of anywhere, and I decided to risk the danger of early death for the availability of cheap wimmin. 

As did the French guy, the girl with him in the bar CCTV looked worth the risk.

I suspect the French guy (victim blaming) played a part in his own demise, by acting in a possessive western (Muslim?) way with the girl. Thais are usually easily placated when there is a dispute over a woman, buy them a drink or two, stop handling the women, and they are your new best friend, and will probably give you the girl. Start a 'she's mine, hands off' confrontation, and you're in trouble.

10 hours ago, Danthai said:

 Chiangmai Ram Dental. Prices very reasonable. Root canals, crowns, extractions, teeth repair, etc.

 

They accidentally drilled through the side of one of my teeth while doing a filling.

Thought I couldn't understand what they were saying in Thai, I never went back, had the job finished elsewhere.

55 minutes ago, banagan said:

I was recently at Dental World, 1 filling and a cleaning. 2000 for the filling, she said it was a big one, the filling, and 900 for the cleaning.

 

Cheaper than back in the west but still seems a bit pricey for CM.

Cleaning is usually 600bht, and I had half a tooth rebuilt for 800bht.

Siam Dental Hospital at the Superhighway end of Chang Puak road (just round the corner).

20 hours ago, Dario said:

Oppo A3s is now sold for 2'770 Baht at Seven Eleven.

 

Yes, I just saw that, 4k including the years True SIM.

Good price for a 6" 'notch phone' including calls and internet.

13 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said:

It also sources many of it's junk from questionable sources in China. That's hit #2. 

Just bought a 20k LG TV from Lazada, tracking was a bit iffy, but apart from that good price and it works.

Never been sold any fake goods, had a couple of items arrive broken, but was given refunds on them.

Can't say I've got any complaints, prices are good, delivery is fast.

I've also had the Kerry, 'we tried to deliver and you were out', when I was most surely in and waiting.

37 minutes ago, smutcakes said:

Did you read the article? The 60K GBP includes the transport back to the UK, with medical assistance. I am sure she would not be able to simply buy an economy seat, she would possibly need a team of medical staff with her, her parents etc- that would not be cheap.

Pal of mine recently medically repatriated from Greece to the UK, no insurance, cost him 7,000 pounds.

7 hours ago, madmen said:

On 12/11/2018 at 5:48 AM, GinBoy2 said:

There was a time back during the coup when there were a hard core, of what I still believe were shills, who basically attacked anything, and anyone they could conceive of as being anti junta. They seem to have vanished for the most part, probably because they were shills!
 
The apologists still reside on mass, reacting with vitriol to anything that they perceive to be anti Thai.
I actually feel sorry for them, since I personally think they are hiding rather deeper issues...a bit like the closet Gay who goes Gay Bashing!
 
But what I lament however is the apparent loss of the more middle of the road posters. The long stayers who recognized Thailand for what it is, still liked living in Thailand though, who could actually have fairly reasoned comment, based on their having lived in Thailand a long time.
 
I fear they are the ones who have either exited Thailand and never, for whatever reason, want to comment again, or have found another, perhaps more welcoming forum to frequent.
 
For transparency, I did tire of they place, and went home, with my Thai wife. Now I enjoy my vacations at our house in Thailand, but I still retain an interest in the place and the fate of the people, through its various travails

Like closet gays? What the.... F.... Are you talking about?

I think he means the Thai apologists are in reality closet Thais .......

4 hours ago, 473geo said:

I am 12 years into our relationship, it owes me nothing, I hope it continues life is good.

So you won't be complaining like the 76-year-old when she cheats you out of your home?

13 minutes ago, bomber said:

if things are going so well in the UK as you say then why do we need brexit?

Because the EU is about to go bust, and it'll drag the UK down if we're still in.

Unless you think France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Greece are all doing fine.

Now there were good things about the EU, pensions, human rights, international court, Euro.

But the UK government opted out of all the stuff of benefit to 'the people', just leaving us with the rubbish.

7 minutes ago, oilinki said:

What I'm not sure is what is her end game is on this brexit

I always thought her game was to sit in the PMs chair for as long as possible.

Get a nice PMs pension, then grab as much money off the back of being a PM as possible.

Don't think she really cares about any outcome of anything.

16 minutes ago, HalfLight said:

I've been through that mill. I don't agree that women don't love men, I think they often do,

I agree with you both, but think they don't love men for long (5 years tops).

Then it's on to the next 'love' with as much of your assets as they can grab.

But by the time they're 30 they only love themselves (and maybe their children).

29 minutes ago, Joe Mcseismic said:

As you seem to be rolling in money, why can't you afford the best education money can buy in Thailand for your kid?

Is it because it's YOU that doesn't have much money, therefore a cheap government school?

You seem to have forgotten what this disagreement was about,

You claim in order to earn lots of money you need a good education whereas I claim you don't need a good education to make lots of money.

I have a very good education, but not a lot of money, you have no education but claim to have a lot of money.

Proving my hypothesis, and disproving your hypothesis.

But you clearly can't understand logic all that much, and I'll just add you to my ignore list.